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                <p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">Enterprise Architect provides support for the <a href="projectmanagement.htm">management of projects</a>. Project Managers can use Enterprise Architect to assign resources to elements, measure risk and effort, and estimate project sizes. Enterprise Architect also helps them manage element <a href="updatepkgstatus.htm">status</a>, change control and <a href="lifecycle.htm">maintenance</a>.</span></p>
<p class="p_SubHeadingL1"><span class="f_SubHeadingL1">Provide Project Estimates</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">With Enterprise Architect the Project Manager has access to a comprehensive project <a href="estimation.htm">estimation</a> tool that calculates effort from Use Case and Actor objects, coupled with project configurations defining the technical and environmental complexity of the work environment.</span></p>
<p class="p_SubHeadingL1"><span class="f_SubHeadingL1">Resource Management</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">Managing the allocation of <a href="resources2.htm">resources</a> in the design and development of system components is an important and difficult task. Enterprise Architect enables the Project Manager or Development Manager to assign resources directly to model elements and track progress over time.</span></p>
<p class="p_SubHeadingL1"><span class="f_SubHeadingL1"><a href="riskmanagement.htm">Risk Management</a></span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">The </span><span class="f_UIControl">Project Management</span><span class="f_BodyText"> window can be used to assign Risk to an element within a project. The Risk Types enable the Project Manager to name the risk, define the type of risk, and give it a weighting.</span></p>
<p class="p_SubHeadingL1"><span class="f_SubHeadingL1">Maintenance</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">Enterprise Architect enables the Project Manager to track and assign maintenance-related items to elements within Enterprise Architect. This enables rapid capture and record keeping for items such as <a href="projectandmodelissues.htm">issues</a>, <a href="changesanddefects.htm">changes, defects</a> and <a href="modeltasktab.htm">tasks</a>. They can also create and maintain a <a href="modelglossaryoverview.htm">project Glossary</a> of processes, procedures, terms and descriptions.</span></p>




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